A good time was had by all at the Ashland Garden Club holiday celebration.
2019 Holiday Party
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Horticulture Report: Maidenhair Fern
Plant Name: Adiantum pediatum
Common name: Maidenhair Fern
Plant type: Fern
Height: 1’ – 2 ½’
Spread: 1’ – 1 ½’
Bloom Time: Not Applicable
Flower Color: Not Applicable
Exposure: Part Shade to Shade
Soil Requirements: Well-Drained, Humusy, Acidic, Moist Soil
Water Needs: Medium
Attributes: Finely textured, frilly fronds with curved stalks, fronds divided into finger-like projections. Wiry stems are reddish-brown to black. Coiled young fiddleheads emerge pink in spring.
Note: High summer heat may cause fronds to brown by mid to late summer, particularly if good soil moisture is not maintained and/or plants are grown in too much sun.
Uses: Attractive ornamental fern for the shaded border, woodland garden, shaded rock garden or native plant garden. Combine with broad leaves.
Native to: North America
Oregon Native: YES
USDA Hardiness Zone: 3 – 8
Report by: Viki Ashford
Photo by: Carlotta Lucas
Pioneer Hall Garlands
Traditionally Ashland Garden Club members make six long lovely garlands to decorate the entrances of the Community Center and Pioneer Hall, but due to the Community Center’s closure earlier this year only Pioneer Hall was spruced up for the holiday season. Thanks to all who participated!
Photos by Goly Ostovar
Event: Poinsettia Festival
Ashland Greenhouses Saturday, Nov 30th, 2019
Time: 10:00am-4:00pm
Ashland Greenhouses annual Poinsettia Festival is where you can walk through thousands of colorful poinsettias, enjoy a hot beverage, snack, and some festive music. Local holiday vendors are selling handcrafted items. There is even a staged area to take your Christmas photo with a sea of red behind you. Everyone gets a free raffle ticket upon arrival for a chance to win great prizes.
Photo by: Carlotta Lucas, Ashland Garden Club
Thumbs-up for Messy Winter Gardens!
By: Dianne Machesney, Master Gardener, Allegheny County: “Three-fourths of the world’s flowering plants and one-third of our food supplies depend on pollination. Pollinators need plants year-round. The succession of flowers throughout the seasons provide nectar, eggs are laid on host plants ensuring reproductive survival, plants and debris left in the garden serve as safe places for pollinators to overwinter. By planting a variety of native flowering species, and leaving them to stand in our winter gardens, we greatly add to the diversity and abundance of pollinators. ” Penn State Extension: https://extension.psu.edu/fall-garden-care-for-pollinators
By Justin Wheeler, Xercres Society: “One of the most valuable things you can do to support pollinators and other invertebrates is to provide them with the winter cover they need.” https://xerces.org/blog/leave-the-leaves
By Jessica Walliser, Savvy Gardening : “Our gardens play an important role in supporting wildlife and what we do in them every autumn can either enhance or inhibit that role.” Six Reason to NOT clean up the garden this fall
November Flowers
Still blooming November 11th in Ashland Oregon: Roses, calendula (Calendula officinalis), pineapple sage (Salvia elegans), pink sorrel (Oxalis articulata), black-eyed Susan vine (Thunbergia alata)
Photos by : Carlotta Lucas